Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-29159-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Crime Files

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Leigh Brackett's No Good from a Corpse, Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely Place, Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, and Rex Stout's Champagne for One, this book shows how these novels reflect the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Marta Usiekniewicz shows thatfood and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Usiekniewicz, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Consumption, Control, and Cannibalism.- 2 Criminal Consumption in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1929).- 3 Control and Cannibalism in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1939).- 4 Mature Consumption in Leigh Brackett’s No Good from a Corpse (1944).- 5 Pathologies of Prophylactic Masculinity in Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place (1947).- 6 Dangers of Postwar Satiety in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952).- 7 Homosocial Consumption in Rex Stout’s Champagne for One (1958).- 8 Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Usiekniewicz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center. A specialist in American literature and cultural studies, she has published on crime fiction, disability studies, and intersections of fatness, race, and consumption. She teaches courses on embodiment in popular culture, food studies, and sexualities. She is on the editorial board of Gender Forum -- An Internet Journal of Gender Studies.